A SLIGHT ALTERATION.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 224, 1 September 1905, Page 2

A SLIGHT ALTERATION.

(to the editor.) Sir, —la compassion I note that those sublimely elegant and touching verses faimlar now to us as one of our nursery somehow teem to have lost their 1 touching,’ for they continue to appeal vainly to a callous community ; seemingly they enjoy sweet repose notwithstanding “ The debt they owe the Printer ” —they have □o disturbing dreams of that “ Place where there’s no winter.” They rather like the warm snug idea. In fact I am persuaded th&t scores of the good souls devoutly kneoling at bedside (absentmindedly) utter in a perfunc tory monody your well-known hues, forgetful cf the prayerful little hymn, “ Now I lay me down to rest.” The matter of vespers has, alas 1 become to their heedless and happy existence a form of “ Ages past away.” Dear Mr Editor, do drop the touching and baautiful and unworthy, and appeal io the fol'o-ving fashion:—“ ‘ We have bean informed that one of our newly married young ladies kneads bread with her gloves on,* says the Cam* bridge Piho Sun. The editor of the paper needs bread with his boots on, he needs bread with bis trousers on, and unless the delinquent readers of this old rag of freedom pay up soon he will need bread without a jolly thing od.” —Yours, etc., WELL WISHER.